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Re: Colored Pencils

From: Sharon Henneborn (heneborn)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 18:26:05 PDT

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    Bunki,

    I like the big Prang. You need to have a pencil sharpener that they
    fit into. Kids cover the area much faster and don't get bogged down
    in tedious coloring. If I don't have those I like the professional
    grade Prang. I wish Prisma color came in the large size. There was a
    German company that produced the big high quality colored pencils but
    I lost the catalog in a move. Anyone know the company?

    Sharon from NJ
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    > We used to use Prismacolors in my classroom exclusively. The colors are
    > sharp and easily mixed/blended BUT...the darn things would constantly break
    > (or if you dropped it by mistake, they'd even break on the "inside"). At
    > NAEA in Chicago, I discovered the newer Prang 6mm colored pencils. These
    > pencils are fatter and almost never break...even with mid. schoolers. They
    > blend, I think, as well as the Prismacolors. Now I'm not talking about the
    > thinner version of Prang, only the 6mm ones. I buy them in boxes of 24
    > colors each which can be expensive at the onset, but the GOOD NEWS is they
    > LAST forever. Twenty-two boxes will handle almost 1000 kids a year for me
    > and we do alot of colored pencil work. After a year's use, I don't even have
    > any nubby ones...they are all still fairly long.
    >
    > If you haven't tried these 6mm's yet, you really should get a box and test
    > them yourself. Toodles...... 

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